parse-function
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Parse a function into an object using espree, acorn or babylon parsers. Extensible through Smart Plugins
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parse-function
Parse a function into an object using espree, acorn or babylon parsers. Extensible through Smart Plugins
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Features
- Always up-to-date: auto-publish new version when new version of dependency is out, Renovate
- Standard: using StandardJS, Prettier, SemVer, Semantic Release and conventional commits
- Smart Plugins: for extending the core API or the end Result, see .use method and Plugins Architecture
- Extensible: using plugins for working directly on AST nodes, see the Plugins Architecture
- ES2020+ Ready: by using
.parseExpression
method of the Babelv7.x
parser - Customization: allows switching the parser, through
options.parse
- Support for: arrow functions, default parameters, generators and async/await functions
- Stable: battle-tested in production and against all parsers - espree, acorn, @babel/parser
- Tested: with 450+ tests for 200% coverage
Table of Contents
(TOC generated by verb using markdown-toc)
Install
This project requires Node.js >=8.11 (see Support & Release Policy). Install it using yarn or npm. We highly recommend to use Yarn when you think to contribute to this project.
$ yarn add parse-function
Which version to use?
There's no breaking changes between the v2.x
version. The only breaking is
v2.1
which also is not working properly, so no use it.
Use v2.0.x
When you don't need support for arrow functions
and es6 default params
. This
version uses a RegExp expression to work.
Use v2.2.x
Only when you need a basic support for es6 features
like arrow functions.
This version uses a RegExp expression to work.
Use v2.3.x
When you want full* support for arrow functions
and es6 default params
.
Where this "full", means "almost full", because it has bugs. This version also
uses (acorn.parse
) real parser to do the parsing.
Use v3.x
When you want to use different parser instead of the default babylon.parse
, by
passing custom parse function to the options.parse
option. From this version
we require node >= 4
.
Use v4.x
When you want full customization and most stable support for old and modern
features. This version uses babylon.parseExpression
for parsing and provides a
Plugins API. See the Features section for
more info.
Use v5.x
It is basically the same as v4
, but requires Node 6 & npm 5. Another is
boilerplate stuff.
Notes
Throws in one specific case
see: issue #3 and test/index.js#L229-L235
It may throw in one specific case, otherwise it won't throw, so you should relay
on the result.isValid
for sure.
Function named "anonymous"
see: test/index.js#L319-L324 and Result section
If you pass a function which is named "anonymous" the result.name
will be
'anonymous'
, but the result.isAnonymous
will be false
and result.isNamed
will be true
, because in fact it's a named function.
Real anonymous function
see: test/index.js#L326-L331 and Result section
Only if you pass really an anonymous function you will get result.name
equal
to null
, result.isAnonymous
equal to true
and result.isNamed
equal to
false
.
Plugins Architecture
see: the .use method, test/index.js#L305-L317 and test/index.js#L396-L414
A more human description of the plugin mechanism. Plugins are synchronous - no support and no need for async plugins here, but notice that you can do that manually, because that exact architecture.
The first function that is passed to the .use method is used for
extending the core API, for example adding a new method to the app
instance.
That function is immediately invoked.
const parseFunction = require('parse-function');
const app = parseFunction();
app.use((self) => {
// self is same as `app`
console.log(self.use);
console.log(self.parse);
console.log(self.define);
self.define(self, 'foo', (bar) => bar + 1);
});
console.log(app.foo(2)); // => 3
On the other side, if you want to access the AST of the parser, you should
return a function from that plugin, which function is passed with
(node, result)
signature.
This function is lazy plugin, it is called only when the .parse method is called.
const parseFunction = require('parse-function');
const app = parseFunction();
app.use((self) => {
console.log('immediately called');
return (node, result) => {
console.log('called only when .parse is invoked');
console.log(node);
console.log(result);
};
});
Where 1) the node
argument is an object - actual and real AST Node coming
from the parser and 2) the result
is an object too - the end
Result, on which you can add more properties if you want.
API
Generated using jest-runner-docs.
parseFunction
Initializes with optional
opts
object which is passed directly to the desired parser and returns an object with.use
and.parse
methods. The default parse which is used is babylon's.parseExpression
method fromv7
.
Signature
function(opts = {})
Params
opts
{object} - optional, merged with options passed to.parse
methodreturns
{object} - app object with.use
and.parse
methods
Examples
const parseFunction = require('parse-function');
const app = parseFunction({
ecmaVersion: 2017,
});
const fixtureFn = (a, b, c) => {
a = b + c;
return a + 2;
};
const result = app.parse(fixtureFn);
console.log(result);
// see more
console.log(result.name); // => null
console.log(result.isNamed); // => false
console.log(result.isArrow); // => true
console.log(result.isAnonymous); // => true
// array of names of the arguments
console.log(result.args); // => ['a', 'b', 'c']
// comma-separated names of the arguments
console.log(result.params); // => 'a, b, c'
.parse
Parse a given
code
and returns aresult
object with useful properties - such asname
,body
andargs
. By default it uses Babylon parser, but you can switch it by passingoptions.parse
- for exampleoptions.parse: acorn.parse
. In the below example will show how to useacorn
parser, instead of the default one.
Params
code
{Function|string} - any kind of function or string to be parsedoptions
{object} - directly passed to the parser babylon, acorn, espreeoptions.parse
{Function} - by defaultbabylon.parseExpression
, alloptions
are passed as second argumentreturns
{object} - result see result section for more info
Examples
const acorn = require('acorn');
const parseFn = require('parse-function');
const app = parseFn();
const fn = function foo(bar, baz) {
return bar * baz;
};
const result = app.parse(fn, {
parse: acorn.parse,
ecmaVersion: 2017,
});
console.log(result.name); // => 'foo'
console.log(result.args); // => ['bar', 'baz']
console.log(result.body); // => ' return bar * baz '
console.log(result.isNamed); // => true
console.log(result.isArrow); // => false
console.log(result.isAnonymous); // => false
console.log(result.isGenerator); // => false
.use
Add a plugin
fn
function for extending the API or working on the AST nodes. Thefn
is immediately invoked and passed withapp
argument which is instance ofparseFunction()
call. Thatfn
may return another function that accepts(node, result)
signature, wherenode
is an AST node andresult
is an object which will be returned result from the.parse
method. This retuned function is called on each node only when.parse
method is called.
Params
fn
{Function} - plugin to be calledreturns
{object} - app instance for chaining
See Plugins Architecture section.
Examples
// plugin extending the `app`
app.use((app) => {
app.define(app, 'hello', (place) => `Hello ${place}!`);
});
const hi = app.hello('World');
console.log(hi); // => 'Hello World!'
// or plugin that works on AST nodes
app.use((app) => (node, result) => {
if (node.type === 'ArrowFunctionExpression') {
result.thatIsArrow = true;
}
return result;
});
const result = app.parse((a, b) => a + b + 123);
console.log(result.name); // => null
console.log(result.isArrow); // => true
console.log(result.thatIsArrow); // => true
const result = app.parse(function foo() {
return 123;
});
console.log(result.name); // => 'foo'
console.log(result.isArrow); // => false
console.log(result.thatIsArrow); // => undefined
.define
Define a non-enumerable property on an object. Just a convenience mirror of the define-property library, so check out its docs. Useful to be used in plugins.
Params
obj
{object} - the object on which to define the propertyprop
{string} - the name of the property to be defined or modifiedval
{any} - the descriptor for the property being defined or modifiedreturns
{object} - obj the passed object, but modified
Examples
const parseFunction = require('parse-function');
const app = parseFunction();
// use it like `define-property` lib
const obj = {};
app.define(obj, 'hi', 'world');
console.log(obj); // => { hi: 'world' }
// or define a custom plugin that adds `.foo` property
// to the end result, returned from `app.parse`
app.use((app) => {
return (node, result) => {
// this function is called
// only when `.parse` is called
app.define(result, 'foo', 123);
return result;
};
});
// fixture function to be parsed
const asyncFn = async (qux) => {
const bar = await Promise.resolve(qux);
return bar;
};
const result = app.parse(asyncFn);
console.log(result.name); // => null
console.log(result.foo); // => 123
console.log(result.args); // => ['qux']
console.log(result.isAsync); // => true
console.log(result.isArrow); // => true
console.log(result.isNamed); // => false
console.log(result.isAnonymous); // => true
Contributing
Guides and Community
Please read the Contributing Guide and Code of Conduct documents for advices.
For bug reports and feature requests, please join our community forum and open a thread there with prefixing the title of the thread with the name of the project if there's no separate channel for it.
Consider reading the Support and Release Policy guide if you are interested in what are the supported Node.js versions and how we proceed. In short, we support latest two even-numbered Node.js release lines.
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License
Copyright (c) 2016-present, Charlike Mike Reagent
<[email protected]>
& contributors.
Released under the MPL-2.0 License.